Golf club cleaner



Feb. 3, 1959 H. GARDNER GOLF CLUB CLEANER Filed April 18, 1956 INVENTOR. Harry L. Gardner" BY ATTO RN EYS United States Patent i GOLF CLUB CLEANER Harry L. Gardner, Sylvania, Ohio Application April 18, 1956, Serial No. 578,954

' 2 Claims. (Cl. 15-246) This invention relates to cleaning means for the metal heads of golf clubs of the type commonly known as irons, and has for its primary object the provision of a brush or scrubbing agent and a holder therefor adapted to be attached to a golf bag, or more desirably to a wheeled golf club carrier or a golfmobile, in a convenient manner for use, and which holder also provides simple and eflicient means for holding a golf club head in proper cleaning engagement with the brush.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description, and from the accompanying drawings illustrating one embodiment thereof, and in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a cleaner embodying the invention, and conveniently mounted on the handle of a pushcart for golf clubs, fragmentarily shown in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged front perspective view of a cleaner attached to a supporting member and showing an iron club in cleaning engagement therewith;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4 is a rear perspective view of the cleaner.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a golf club cleaning brush and 2 a holder for the brush and which latter also serves as a guiding means for a club in engagement with the brush. The holder 2 is adapted to be clamped to any suitable support such, for instance, as the handle rod 3 of a golf bag carrying cart.

The brush 1, in the present instance, is of the ordinary scrubbing brush type with a flat back 4 having tufts of bristles 5 projecting from one side. The brush back is secured flat against the holder back 6 by screws 6a, or in any other suitable manner.

The holder 2 is preferably made of sheet metal or other suitable material of a stifi nature and comprises aflat back 6, an opposing front plate-like part 7, and an inner end part 8 connecting the adjacent edges, the top in the present instance, of the parts 6 and 7. The connecting part 8 is of forwardly looped form with the lower forward edge portion of the loop preferably extending downwardly and inward toward the back 6 and then forward to provide a stop shoulder 9. From the outer edge of this shoulder depends the guard flange or front plate-like part 7 of the holder. This flange extends downward and inward on an incline to the face of the brush and terminates at its lower edge adjacent to the free ends of the bristle tufts 6 and near the bottom edge of the brush, as

shown.

2,871,499 Patented Feb. 3, 1959 The head or blade 10 of an iron club is customarily V-shape in cross-section, or substantially so, and the inclination of the guard flange 7 approximately conforms to the angle of one side of the blade while the other side is disposed in the surface plane of the bristle ends, as indicated in Fig. 3. In cleaning a club head it is inserted endwise in the triangular space between the brush bristles and the flange 7 and is moved back and forth in this position, being held in cleaning contact with the bristles by the flange 7.

The connection 8 has a longitudinally extending depression or trough-like part 12 that is preferably spaced a short distance forward of the upper edge of the back 6 and adapted to form a seat for a supporting bar or rod 3 against which it is firmly held by the cooperating action of a tongue 13 and clamp 14 on the holder top. The tongue 13 is struck up from the back 6 and a portion of the top connection 8 at'the rear of the trough part 12 and is adjustably clamped at its free end to the adjacent free end of the member 14 by a bolt 15. The opposite or inner end of the member 14- has one or more projections 16 entering slots 17 in the part 8 and in hooked en- 1 gagement with the wall thereof.

It is apparent that I have provided a simple golf club cleaning means that may be easily and quickly attached to a golf bag, a golfmobile or a club carrying cart and which serves to clean the heads of so-called iron clubs in a simple, rapid and easy manner.

I wish it understood that my invention is not limited to any specific construction, arrangement or form of the parts, as it is capable of numerous modifications and changes without departing from the spirit of the claims.

I claim:

l. A golf club cleanercomprising a holder formed of single sheet material, said sheet material being shaped to have a perpendicular back plate, a connecting web to a front plate, said front plate being disposed at an angle to the back plate, a cleaning brush attached to the back plate with its bristles facing the front plate in spaced relation thereto, a part of the web connecting the back plate to the front plate being formed with an inwardly projecting shoulder adjacent the top of the front plate, said shoulder forming a stop engagement for the golf club head being cleaned, with means on said connecting web for clamping the holder to a support.

2. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the means for clamping the holder to a support comprises a tongue struck from the material at the top of the front plate, apertures in the connecting Web and a clamp member having projections on one edge and a tab on an opposed edge, the projections on the clamp member entering the apertures in the web, and a bolt and nut assembly connecting the tongue and tab together.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Chambless May 8, 1956 

